1002# “施行迹象”表示通过谬论和诡辩来说服。这从“迹象”的含义清楚可知，“迹象”是指证明和说服，因而是指确认(参看AE706,824节)，在此是指通过谬论和诡辩实现的说服，因为此处论述的主题是那些通过推理确认与生活分离之信的人。由于这是通过谬论和诡辩做到的，简单人被这些谬论和诡辩说服，所以“施行迹象”在此表示通过谬论和诡辩实现的说服和确认。说服是通过谬论或谬误实现的，这在前面已经说明，那里论述了“从海里上来的兽”(启13:1–13)；这兽表示通过来自属世人的推理所实现的确认。这就是“迹象”的含义，因为经上补充说，他们要“出去到地上和全世界的列王那里，召集他们去争战”，这句话表示在整个教会挑起反对真理的纷争和争战。
(关于第六诫续)从到目前为止所阐述的可以推断出，由婚姻的贞洁产生的良善是什么；因此，一个避开通奸如反对神的罪之人所做的贞洁善行是什么。贞洁的善行要么涉及婚姻伴侣自己，要么涉及他们的子孙后代，要么涉及天堂社群。涉及婚姻伴侣自己的贞洁善行是属灵和属天的爱，聪明和智慧，纯真和平安，以及对抗地狱，并由此而来的邪恶和虚假的能力和保护；它们是多种多样的永恒喜乐和幸福。那些活在贞洁婚姻中的人，如前所述，就拥有这一切。涉及子孙后代的贞洁善行是，如此多又如此大的邪恶不会在家族中变成与生俱来的。因为父母的主导爱会传给子女，有时传给遥远的后代，成为他们的遗传性质。这种遗传性质在那些避开通奸如地狱之物，并热爱婚姻如天堂之物的父母身上被打破和软化或缓和。
涉及天堂社群的贞洁善行是，贞洁的婚姻就是天堂的快乐，它们是天堂的发源地和保证或支撑。它们通过交流向天堂提供快乐，通过生育后代成为天堂的发源地，通过对抗地狱的能力成为天堂的保证或支撑；因为在婚姻之爱面前，魔鬼灵变得暴怒、疯狂、精神虚弱，并把自己投入深渊。
1002. Working Signs. That this signifies persuasions by means of fallacies and sophistries, is evident from the signification of signs, as denoting testifications and persuasions, and thereby also confirmations (concerning which see (n. 13:1-13). By it also were signified confirmations by reasonings from the natural man.
The reason why such things are signified by signs is, that it is said that they were to go away to the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle, which signifies to excite dissensions and combats against truths in the whole church.
Continuation concerning the Sixth Precept:-
[2] From the things so far adduced a conclusion may be formed as to what good arises from chastity in marriage; consequently, what the good works of chastity are that are done by a man who shuns adulteries as sins against God. The good works of chastity are those which concern either the married partners themselves, or their offspring and posterity, or the heavenly societies. The good works of chastity that concern the married partners themselves are spiritual and celestial loves, intelligence and wisdom, innocence and peace, power and protection against the hells, and against the evils and the falsities therefrom; and they are manifold joys and felicities to eternity. All these are possessed by those who live in chaste marriage, according to what has been said before.
The good works of chastity that concern the offspring and posterity are, that so many and such great evils do not become innate in families. For the ruling love of parents is transmitted into the offspring and sometimes into late posterity, and becomes their hereditary nature. This is broken and mitigated with parents who shun adulteries as infernal, and love marriage as heavenly.
[3] The good works of chastity that relate to the heavenly societies are, that chaste marriages are the delights of heaven; that they are its seminaries; and that they are its securities. They afford delights to heaven by means of communications; they are seminaries of heaven by means of progeny, and they are securities to heaven by power against the hells; for diabolical spirits, at the presence of conjugial love, become furious, insane, mentally impotent, and cast themselves into the deep.
1002. Doing signs, signifies persuading by fallacies and sophistries. This is evident from the signification of "signs," as being attestations and persuasions, and thus confirmations (See n. Revelation 13:1-13), which signified confirmations by reasonings from the natural man. This is the signification of "signs," because it is added that they were "to go away unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to battle," which signifies to excite dissensions and combats against truths in the whole church.
(Continuation respecting the Sixth Commandment)
[2] From what has been thus far presented what the good is that results from chastity in marriage can be inferred, consequently what the good works of chastity are that a man does who shuns adulteries as sins against God. The good works of chastity concern either the married pair themselves, or their offspring and posterity, or the heavenly societies. The good works of chastity that concern the married pair themselves are spiritual and celestial loves, intelligence and wisdom, innocence and peace, power and protection against the hells and against the evils and the falsities therefrom, and manifold joys and felicities to eternity. Those who live in chaste marriages, as before described, have all these. The good works of chastity that concern the offspring and posterity are that so many and so great evils do not become innate in families. For the ruling love of parents is transmitted into the offspring and sometimes to remote posterity, and becomes their hereditary nature. This is broken and softened with parents who shun adulteries as infernal and love marriages as heavenly.
[3] The good works of chastity that concern the heavenly societies are that chaste marriages are the delights of heaven, that they are its seminaries, and that they are its supports. They supply delights to heaven by communications; they are seminaries to heaven by producing offspring; and they are supports to heaven by their power against the hells; for at the presence of conjugial love diabolical spirits become furious, insane, and mentally impotent, and cast themselves into the deep.
1002. "Facientes signa." - Quod significet persuadentia per fallacias et sophistica, constat ex significatione "signorum", quod sint testificationes et persuasiones, et sic quoque confirmationes (de qua (supra), n. 706, 824); hic persuasiones per fallacias et sophistica, nam agitur de illis qui per ratiocinia confirmant fidem separatam a vita; et quia hoc fit per fallacias et sophistica, per quae simplices persuadentur, ideo per "facientes signa" hic significantur persuasiones et confirmationes per fallacias et sophistica: quod persuasiones fiant per fallacias, supra ostensum est, ubi de "bestia ascendente ex mari" (cap. 13:1-13) actum est; per illam etiam significatae sunt confirmationes per ratiocinia ex naturali homine. Quod talia significentur per "signa", est quia sequitur, "ad abeundum ad reges terrae et orbis totius, ad congregandum illos in proelium", per quae significatur ad excitandum discidia et pugnas contra vera in universa ecclesia.
[2] (Continuatio de Sexto Praecepto.)
Ex hactenus allatis concludi potest quid boni ex castitate in conjugiis resultat, consequenter quid sunt bona opera castitatis quae fiunt ab homine qui fugit adulteria ut peccata contra Deum; sunt bona opera castitatis quae concernunt vel ipsos conjuges, vel prolem et posteritatem illorum, vel societates caelestes. Bona opera castitatis quae concernunt ipsos conjuges, sunt amores spirituales et caelestes, sunt intelligentia et sapientia, sunt innocentia et pax, sunt potentia et tutela contra inferna, et contra mala et falsa inde, suntque gaudia multiplicia, ac felicitates in aeternum; quae omnia sunt illis qui in castis conjugiis vivunt, secundum praedicta.
[3] Bona opera castitatis quae concernunt prolem et posteritatem, sunt, quod tot et tanta mala non connascantur familiis; amor enim regnans parentum traducitur in prolem. et quandoque in seram posteritatem, et fit illis natura hereditata; haec frangitur et mitescit apud parentes qui adulteria ut infernalia fugiunt, et conjugia ut caelestia amant. Bona opera castitatis quae concernunt societates caelestes, sunt, quod casta conjugia sint deliciae caeli, quod sint seminaria ejus, et quod sint firmamenta ejus; delicias praebent caelo per communicationes; seminaria sunt caelo per prolificationes; et firmamenta sunt caelo per potentiam contra inferna, nam spiritus diabolici ad praesentiam amoris conjugialis fiunt furibundi, vesani, ac impotes mentis, et projiciunt se in profundum.